Cormac Flynn
Software Engineer at Linear
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolCormac Flynn is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of front-end leadership experience, currently building products at Linear after long tenures at Datadog and Deezer. He specializes in React-driven architectures, performance optimization, accessibility, and collaborative rich-text experiences—having led projects for dashboard engines, query scheduling, and multiplayer editing. Comfortable navigating legacy-to-modern migrations, he has repeatedly shaped front-end platforms, CI/build pipelines, and testing cultures at scale. Based in Paris since 2007, he blends a pragmatic engineering approach with a strong focus on usability and keyboard/a11y improvements. Outside product work he has a history of lifting runtimes and developer tooling, turning brittle codebases into maintainable systems. Trained with an MSc in Computer Science from University College Dublin, he pairs solid academic grounding with deep practical experience across music, observability, and enterprise domains.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University College Dublin
English, French
Github Skills (39)
gettext10
converter9
translation9
json9
i18next9
rewire8
dojo7
parliament6
nodejs5
babel-plugin5
transparency5
npm-cli5
npm5
extjs5
testing4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leroncier/node_together
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Node Together event in Paris.
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 11 months
nodejsnode
DataDog/react-sortable-hoc
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
A set of higher-order components to turn any list into an animated, touch-friendly, sortable list ✌️
Contributions:10 releases, 22 pushes, 21 tags in 6 months
reactanimationanimatedjavascripttouch
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